Improvement in bottle or can fasteners



W. DOYLE. Bqttle or Can Fastener.

No.218,7l9. PatentedAug.l9, l879.

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MPETERS. PHDTO-UTHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM DOYLE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN BOTTLE OR CAN FASTENERS.

l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,719, dated August19, 1879; application filed January 22, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DOYLE, of Boston, of the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bottles or Milk-Cans and do hereby declare the same to befullydescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig.2 a transverse section, of a milk-can provided with my invention, themain object of which is to preserve the stopper in place in the mouth ofthe can.

It frequently happens during the transportation of a milk-can in a wagonthat the stopper of such can becomes loosened in and ejected from themouth of the can, the milk or liquid contents being thereby liable to bespilled or thrown out of the vessel.

With my invention the stopper is not only attached to the can, but isprovided with a ready means of keeping it in place in the neck or 'mouththereof.

In carrying out my said invention or improvement, I provide the bottleor can A with in the handle, and base. knot, 0, made on it at its end,to prevent it from becoming detached from the handle. in

From this it will be seen that to secure the stopper in the neck of thecan or bottle the needle or pin is to be inserted into one of the radialholes of the neck and thrust into or through the stopper, or throughboth neck and stopper, after which, in order to keep the pin firmly inplace, the cord or chain may be drawn taut through the hole in thehandle and the eye of the pin or needle, and afterward be tied to itselfor to the handle.

As wooden stoppers are generally used for milk-cans, the holes thereoffor reception of the pin 1 purpose to make somewhat larger in diameterthan the pin, in order that it may be readily inserted through thestopper,in which case the necessity of drawing the cord taut through thepin, eye, and the handle, and tying the cord to itself or to thehandle,lwill be apparent.

In lieu of the hole in the handle, an eye or a projection with a hole init may be fixed to the bottle or its neck; but having in the handle thefastening-hole for the cord saves the expense of a perforated projectionor eye, as mentioned, separate from the handle.

I claim as my invention as follows:

In combination with the bottle or milk-can A, provided with one or moreholes, a, in its neck b, and with a stopper, B, to such neck, a pin orneedle, I), and a chain or cord, 0, connecting it with the stopper andwith the bottle or the handle thereof, all being substantially and forthe purposes or objects as set forth.

WILLIAM DOYLE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

